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Quotes About Burdened

Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will grant you rest. (Matthew 11:28)
~ Mitch Albom
Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.
~ Thomas Hardy
Power is made perfect in infirmity, and our very helplessness is all the more potent a claim on that Divine Mercy Who calls to Himself the poor, the little ones, the heavily burdened.
~ Thomas Merton
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) deems a family that is spending more than 30 percent of its income on housing to be "cost burdened," at risk of having too little money for food, clothing, and other essential expenses. Today there is no state in the Union in which a family that is supported by a full-time, minimum-wage worker can afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent without being cost burdened, according to HUD.
~ Kathryn Edin
Good evening, Empress Zanther. How are you feeling?" Zanther smiled faintly back. "I can sum it up in one word, my friend: stress.
~ Gene Steinberg
This thought was so heavy with despair that she almost began to cry again.
~ Iris Murdoch
It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.
~ Susan Piver
I am sick with caring.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am freighted with thought.
~ Thoreau
I'm always buried in something. But I love you. I try to listen to what's going on. If you need me, just—bring in a bucket of water, or something. Well, not water around the computers. Maybe a cattle prod. No. Not around the computers . . .." "Ice," I said. "Down the back.
~ Kristen D. Randle
It is miserably clear that the video has been shot by a third conspirator who is burdened with a consumer-grade camcorder and reeling from some kind of inner-ear disease that he or she would like to share with others.
~ Neal Stephenson
And still I am quite cramped with it all!
~ Victor Hugo
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I believe that I am unclean and will harm those I care about the most and that there is too much noise in my head and that I am so goddamned tired.
~ Teresa Toten
One who seeks what he does not need is devoid of the pure delight God reserves for those who seek him undividedly...The pursuer of superfluity quite completely lacks the fulfilling joy and the rest that Jesus promises to the burdened who come to him.
~ Thomas Dubay
So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than any, secretly Mourned for them all
~ Virgil
Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.
~ Charles Baxter
Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.
~ Marcia Fudge
Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.
~ Seungri
Done because we are too menny.
~ Thomas Hardy
Unlike me, Tim Taylor isn't burdened with thoughts about the cosmos. He thinks the Cosmos are a soccer team.
~ Tim Allen
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
~ Robert Walpole
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
~ Scott Cook